From 7d5498a91823c993fe1704e7e0b03ce3d46ef634 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ricardo=20Fern=C3=A1ndez=20Serrata?=
 <76864299+Rudxain@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 02:01:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] use `xdg-utils` to install `*.desktop` shortcut

---
 book/src/building-from-source.md | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/book/src/building-from-source.md b/book/src/building-from-source.md
index 666917ea4..c0a18ba53 100644
--- a/book/src/building-from-source.md
+++ b/book/src/building-from-source.md
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ you can configure Helix to show up in the application menu by copying the
 provided `.desktop` and icon files to their correct folders:
 
 ```sh
-cp contrib/Helix.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
-cp contrib/helix.png ~/.icons # or ~/.local/share/icons
+xdg-desktop-icon install --novendor contrib/Helix.desktop
+xdg-icon-resource install --novendor --size 256 contrib/helix.png
 ```
 
 To use another terminal than the system default, you can modify the `.desktop`